[Linesh Jose]

Hi folks,

I’m new to bbpress. on forums and topic page, the notice displays the avatar of last posed user. I want to remove it also I want to highlight the author name by using PHP not CSS.

please help me.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

I am working on my localhost with a copy of my large-ish wp blog with bbpress standalone (5,609 posts in 1,778 topic threads). All is working well but when I go to use the bbPress Standalone Importer, it just seems to stop.

No errors or anything, Just a blank page at /wp-admin/admin.php?import=bbpress, with the title and nav, and nothing else.

I waited for an hour, nothing happened. So I tried to run it again and it was aware that there was an import in progress. I tried to restart it, nothing. I tried to start a whole new import, still nothing.

Is there a problem with this tool? And is it possible to achieve the same via the command line?

[MTPrower]

Thanks. Will try, then report my findings.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Try putting add_theme_support into the parent theme’s functions.php

[MTPrower]

I call spam on the above comment.

[MTPrower]

I did try it once and then put the add_theme_support into my WordPress child functions.php. It didn’t get me anywhere. If anyone knows of anybody who’s successfully merged a WordPress child theme and a bbPress child theme, please tell.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

MTPrower,

I’m no expert, believe me.

But, if you have a child theme already, did you try merging your child theme with a bbpress child theme?

I would try dropping all the relevant bbpress php templates into your child theme, putting the necessary info into functions.php, and seeing what you get.

[fotopro]

Hi!

I’ve tryed to upload the available pt.mo and pt-br.mo files into “my-languages” directory and it still works in english.

There are sevveral posts about changing the language bt there is not a correct support page with instructions to do it.

Can you please tell me what do I need to do?

If I translate all the bbpress.pot file and upload it will it work?

Thanks!

[Keith Kelly]

@ejegirl23 jjj is working with Pagelines to try and get a solution. They should be posting updates on this thread and here: http://www.pagelines.com/forum/discussion/14742/bbpress-2.0

[shaliru]

I’ve installed bbpress and have been configuring it. However, I’ve noticed on the forum root (home>forum) page, all my wordpress pages are listed just beneath the list of my forums. is there a way to remove this list and just have my forums displayed?

[MTPrower]

I already have a child theme activated for WordPress, and I intend to keep it. Does this mean I can’t have a separate WordPress theme and bbPress theme at the same time? I need to use my current WordPress child theme. I can’t just get rid of it because I want to style bbPress!

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Here are the steps I just took to install bbpress on a wp install and get a child theme started so I can develop with it. It assumes you have a mirror of your site files on your computer HD. Hopefully it will help someone.

1) Install plugin on live site.

2) Download

/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten

to your computer, and copy folder and contents to

/wp-content/themes/

rename the folder if you want, so you have

/wp-content/themes/newchildtheme/

3) turn this into a child theme:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

(basically, add a “Template: ” parameter)

4) Upload this new child theme to your server

5) In the parent theme, add

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

to functions.php

5) Upload functions.php to server

6) Go to

/wp-admin/themes.php?activated=true

on your site and activate your child theme

[zofar143x]

Because my main theme makes bbpress look really messy I did the following:

I went to the plugin theme folder and changed the css to make it a child of the theme I’m using instead of twentyten. I activated “bbPress (Twenty Ten)” in wordpress and now the forum layout looks like how it would be in twentyten but the rest of the site looks like the parent. Exactly like I want it to be. However, there are still some issues I can’t seem to resolve.

First thing is that the comments don’t allign well as you can see here:

http://tinypic.com/r/r77juw/5

Does anyone know how I can fix this?

[Arturo]

hi, i’m switching my standalone installation with bbpress plugin… i need the forums list like the one on testbp.org or bbpress.org but i don’t know the file to edit…

ATM i’ve:

Forum title

Forum description

Leave a comment to Forum title

i need only:

Forum title

Forum description

thanks for the help…

[ejegirl23]

I am also having the same issue. Hoping to fix this soon.

[Anointed]

What function do I have to add to my plugin file in order to get bbPress to load the top level template files?

I have a plugin that has a structure as follows:

my-custom-theme/

plugin.php

my-custom-theme – includes all the top level templates like archive-forums.php, archive-topics.php, etc

my-custom-theme/bbpress – includes all the template files found in the standard bbPress plugin such as loop-forums.php, loop-replies.php, etc

my-custom-theme/css – includes bbpress.css

The problem I am having is when I activate my plugin, the css is being loaded properly from my plugin, and the template files found within the /bbpress directory are also loading properly from within my plugin.

THE PROBLEM:

When activated the top-level template files such as archive-forums.php, archive-topics.php, etc are not loading.

Instead, bbPress is loading the standard page.php file from twentyten, which is the theme I have activated.

So everything works, EXCEPT the loading of the top-level templates.

What function do I have to add to my plugin in order to get bbPress to also recognize those files?

*It is completely confusing as to why bbPress would see everything except those files….

And YEAH, I’ve tried everything I can think of for almost a week now. I’ve asked 2 other bbPress developers and neither of them has a clue either, so I’m not that ignorant of lazy.

Here is the 500th attempt at getting it right:

http://pastebin.com/tNKV9nT7

[shooo]

oO last replies are on ligne 749 no?

but thank you, i change ligne 750

<div id="lastreply">



<?php while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); ?>



<div class="post">

<h4>



<?php

$author_link = bbp_get_reply_author_link( array( 'type' => 'both', 'size' => 60 ) );

$reply_link = '' . bbp_get_reply_topic_title() . '';



/* translators: bbpress replies widget: 1: reply author, 2: reply link, 3: reply date, 4: reply time */



printf( _x( $show_date == 'on' ? '%1$s on %2$s, %3$s, %4$s' : '%1$s on %2$s', 'widgets', 'bbpress' ), $author_link, $reply_link, get_the_date(), get_the_time() );

?>



</h4>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>



</div><!-- fin de post -->



<?php endwhile; ?>



</div><!-- fin du last reply-->

and it’s ok but I am afraid that the next bbpress update overwrites the change

thx a lot for your help

[dreamgrowers]

How do I tell bbpress which template to use so I can customize the sidebar or NOT use a sidebar?

For example, it seems to use the default sidebar, but I want it to use my custom sidebar or none at all. There’s not forum page created so I can’t seem to figure out where to change it.

I’m sure it’s simple, but thanks again for any help!

[MTPrower]

Does nobody know how to use a custom CSS file with bbPress 2.0 that overwrites the default TwentyEleven bbPress theme and doesn’t get removed with updates? Nobody?

[Anointed]

@nearshore

Sorry I don’t know Chris personally so no special contact info. I would simply post the question on his support forums, and maybe send him a twitter message.

As kristarella is already working on a solution I am guessing that means there are a few people asking about bbpress support in his forums already.

[nearshore]

@Anointed Do you know how to contact Chris? I went to his Blog/Forum but there are about 40,000 people that have bought Thesis and he cannot answer questions to all of them, perhaps the reason I could not find his contact info. One of the people on his team / network has worked a solution @kristarella as @Gautam suggested

@Gautam: I downloaded the plugin and installed it, and it all seemed to be going well, the Forum page was actually linked to the real forum BUT:

I got this error at the top of the forum page:

Fatal error:

Call to undefined method stdClass::have_posts() in /home/content/28/7732828/html/jkewbform/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-template.php on line 117

Any ideas why or what it means and how I can fix it? Thanks

[Anointed]

That is exactly why I mentioned the widget file. If you look closely at the code you will see that the widget code actually does use the wordpress loop.

Check out line 542 where the arguments for the loop are set followed by a standard WordPress loop format. While the terminology is a little different, the concept of bbPress loops and WordPress loops is exactly the same.

[Anointed]

When I click on the forum homepage navigation link then the navigation link stays as ‘active’ as expected.

However, if I click on any sub-forum or topic, then the navigation is no longer in the ‘active’ [current-menu-item] state.

I somewhat understand why this is happening, but wanted to know if there is a way of fixing this issue.

Is there any way to say if_bbpress() then force the ‘active’ state on the forum navigation link?

[Anointed]

the bbPress plugin comes with 2 widgets already. You can have both the most recent topics and most recent replies, plus a few others.

If you are trying to build a custom widget, then look at the bbPress widget code file to see how it is done. It will help a lot.

[citizenkeith]

I’m getting the same errors that scribu described. I added his code to the config file, and I’m still getting that error.

bbpress 1.1 and latest bbpress plugin (as of today).

Standard integration, all plugins off and themes set to default.